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MIT Archives to Embark on Major Processing Project

• Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:13:36 -0500
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Megan Sniffin-Marinoff <msniffin@MIT.EDU>
• Subject: MIT Archives to Embark on Major Processing Project
• Message-ID: 2.2.32.20011127161336.01869a6c@po10.mit.edu

MIT Archives to Embark on Major Processing Project; Reading Room Hours and
Service to the Public to be Temporarily Reduced

Early in February, 2002, the Institute Archives will begin a special
one-year project to organize important research material in its collections.
To free up staff to carry out this project in a concentrated time-frame, the
reading room will be open to the public only two days a week February
through May, and July through the following January. Specific days and hours
for the reading room will be posted in late December.

The Archives reading room will open its regular five days per week for the
month of June in order to provide scholars significant uninterrupted time
for projects involving use of the collections.  

For the one-year period of the special project, services to those from
outside of MIT will be reduced.  The Archives will not provide e-mail or
telephone reference or research service to remote users and there will be a
limit placed on all forms of copying.  There will be no access to the
unprocessed collections.   For the convenience of the public, the Archives
will provide a list of collections that can be used.  The list will be
posted on the Archives web site shortly.

It is anticipated that in the course of the 12-month period, the Archives
staff will be able to process a considerable number of collections. The
project will give staff the time to process materials, making them
accessible for those seeking factual information or research resources about
MIT and its history. The MIT archival collections are among the most
significant records in the history of science and technology in the United
States.  It is likely that many important yet never-used documents will be
"discovered" in the process.

For further information contact: Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, msniffin@mit.edu,
617-253-5690

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Megan G. Sniffin-Marinoff
Head, Institute Archives and Special Collections
MIT Libraries
Building 14N-118
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307

Phone	617.253.5688 or 617.253.5690
Fax	617.258.7305
Email	msniffin@mit.edu
http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/